Word: potter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Potter Palmer died in his Lake Shore Drive home, leaving his wife...
...Potter Palmer's greatest contributions to U. S. social history were the silver dollar motif for barroom floors and his Chicago home at No. 1350 Lake Shore Drive.* Last week, after a lapse of three years, the great castellated pile that he plunked down on a sand dune in 1882 was repossessed by his family...
...Potter Palmer built his mansion for Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer, a Kentucky belle, out of a fortune he had made in the dry-goods business and plowed back into a mile of State Street real estate. In its day it cost more than $1,000,000 and was generally considered a thing of rare architectural beauty (see cut). Inside it was a magnificent hodgepodge. The great central hall, three stories high, was largely Italian. There was a Louis XVI salon, an Indian room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with...
...Palmer House, Just 13 days before John Drake scampered out of the path of the fire to buy himself a new hotel, Potter Palmer swung wide the doors of Chicago's finest hostelry. Like most of Chicago it was burned to the ground. But the grizzled bon-vivant who had sold his drygoods store to Levi Leiter and Marshall Field because he thought his days were numbered, lived to see a new Palmer House become Chicago's first world-famed hotel. Its barber shop (floor studded with silver dollars) set the fashion for every first-class saloon west...
...finest publicity the old Palmer House ever had was provided by Potter Palmer's wife. From her great castellated mansion on Lake Shore Drive she drove Chicago society for 40 years. There she entertained Edward of Wales for whose favor as Edward VII of Britain she later waged mighty social campaigns in London. Potter Palmer took little part in his beauteous wife's gyrations, often slipped away from levees to spend an evening with his cronies. His mile of State Street real estate grew vastly more important than the hotel. The present Palmer House, a leading commercial hotel...